Lucid Interval
Theoretically Lucid Interval is the moment when a departing individual sees Flash Light of the Next Life. This moment is brief and if one sees a bright next life the departure from this life is not traumatic but smooth.
Lucid Interval
Theoretically Lucid Interval is the moment when a departing individual sees Flash Light of the Next Life. This moment is brief and if one sees a bright next life the departure from this life is not traumatic but smooth.
Yes to Chocolates but not to Cola is my Motto
This is the message that I should convey to the young and the old.
First, with some personal experiences of us as young parents in UK and the encounter we had with Coca Cola. My children were addicted to Cola and my British colleague who opened my eyes to the addiction of my kids to the derivative of cocaine, cola drink possesses. Itconstitutes as anatural permitted ingredient. That made me to do some search on the cola leaf. Even, the tiny bit of coca extract in the syrup has cocaine and it is continued to be an ingredient in the syrup in order to protect the trade name "Coca Cola" for a long time so that the company became a house hold name in Americas. Things have changed significantly but during the promotional campaigns,
I have reason to believe the promoters increase the concentration of the syrup so that some would get addicted to the brand name. That much is enough for Cola and the Americanism and their market principles.
Currently, Bolivians are asking for free franchise of cocaine as a national industry.
Now to the cocoa nut.
Whenever, I get a new job abroad and whenever, I have a friendly discussion over the dinner table, I always raise the issue that the Westerners have a sweet tooth and eating chocolates is bad for two reasons.
One is because of the sugar content and the other my own Ceylonese secret invention of cocoa. It is my April fool, long before the April fool's day.
I tell them in a very scientific way, that we suck the seeds of cocoa before drying them on sunlight. The scientific secret is that the digestive enzymes in our saliva digest the outer coat in such a way to get the best quality cocoa to be produced in Ceylon for export.
I do not think any cocoa trees left in our country. The cocoa powder is imported from Africa and I go on to say we have Infectious Hepatitis in Ceylon and it is risky to eat chocolates.
I did a good thing before leaving Ceylon. One of my distant relatives, elderly brother had a few coco plants in his land. I needed a few cocoa plants for my roof top garden "orchid house". I use the coco plant to hang the orchids. Coco pant has a thick bark that is conduce for orchids. Besides cocoa plant encourages the fiery black ants that support my orchids. I encourage black ants since they demolish fiery red ants. Due to my negligence the big cocoa plant had an unnatural death and the the young one was not big enough to support my orchids.
Dual disaster.
So I asked him for a few seeds. He told me he needs about 6 weeks to prepare the seeds. We met him in Kandy over a good lunch and big chat. I got the seeds but could not plant them. I handed them to a guy who used to help me and said I am leaving to Australia in three months and I need at least two plans in two plant pots, before I leave. I left within a month and did not have the plants. In any case, I was to return home within three months.
My relative left to Canada 6 weeks after me and I hope the helper guy would plant a few of the cocoa plants in his plot of land.
Whenever they offer me chocolates I flatly refuse the offer reminding of them of hepatitis. This is the way, I take my turn for the rigmarole that I have to go through of all the vaccinations, chest X-rays and medical check ups which I have to undergo whenever, I get a new job abroad and before commencing work.
Little they suspect that it is a made up story and I go on to say that during coca cola campaigns, the company imports a special brand of essence from America that the Company Chairman himself prepares, in his private bath. I go onto say the essence is put in the tub and the chairman does the tempering with his feet, like in vine making and the real taste of coco cola is from the sweat of the his feet. I go on to say the sweat he shed for his company is phenomenal judging by the company's sale figures.
This is something, I probably got from Arthur Buchwald’s writings and a slight hint for my friends that there is some exaggeration and pun involved, in my scientific story.
If they have had read him, they would have guessed the pun.
Arthur "Art"Buchwald (October 20, 1925 January 17, 2007) was an American humorist best known for his long running column in The Washington Post, which in turn was carried as a syndicated column in many other newspapers. His column focused on political satire and commentary. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Outstanding Commentary in 1982 and in 1986 was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
So within a week I put them off of two of their favorite food items.
I have taken my revenge for the extra medical checks they have gone through myself and my family every time we go out. No wonder, I have not gone out for a long time.
For about three month I carry on this ploy religiously and in due course, I get caught eating chocolates somewhere in a supermarket or an open place.
YOU are a Cheat and I find YOU eat chocolates, surreptitiously.
I would say this is a special brand and it is hermetically (I do not understand the meaning of the word) prepared or something to that effect so as, “not to caught”.
Finally, I bare open, the truth when enough people start suspecting me. Then I buy them loads of chocolates for being good sport.
The chocolates and a sample of its virtues is given below.
Cholesterol, The Truth
If you had been cheated by American Drug companies, please read this real biochemistry.
Your body makes saturated fats and your body makes Cholesterol – about 2000 mg per day. In general, cholesterol that the average American absorbs from food amounts to about 100 mg per day. So, in theory, even reducing animal foods to zero will result in a mere 5% decrease in the total amount of cholesterol available to the blood and tissues. In practice, such a diet is likely to deprive the body of the substrates it needs to manufacture enough of this vital substance cholesterol.
Cholesterol, like saturated fats, stands unfairly accused.
It acts as a precursor to vital corticosteroid hormones that help us deal with stress and protect the body against heart disease and cancer. It is a precursor to the sex hormones like androgen, testosterone, estrogen and progesterone. It is a precursor to vitamin D, a vital fat-soluble vitamin needed for healthy bones and nervous system, proper growth, mineral metabolism, muscle tone, insulin production, reproduction and immune system function. It is the precursor to bile salts, which are vital for digestion and assimilation of fats in the diet.
Recent research shows that cholesterol acts as an antioxidant. This is the likely explanation for the fact that cholesterol levels go up with age. As an antioxidant, cholesterol protects us against free radical damage that leads to heart disease and cancer. Cholesterol is the body's repair substance, manufactured in large amounts when the arteries are irritated or weak. Blaming heart disease on high serum cholesterol levels is like blaming firemen who have come to put out a fire and not the one for started the blaze.
Cholesterol is needed for proper function of serotonin receptors in the brain. Serotonin is the body's natural "Feel Good" chemical. This explains why low cholesterol levels have been linked to aggressive and violent behaviour, depression and suicidal tendencies.
Mother's milk is especially rich in cholesterol and contains a special enzyme that helps the baby utilize this nutrient. Babies and children need cholesterol rich foods throughout their growing years to ensure proper development of the brain and nervous system.
1. Cholesterol is a vital biochemical component
2. Body’s internal production far exceeds its dietary intake and independent of eating eggs.
3. Cholesterol is needed for proper function of serotonin receptors in the brain. Serotonin is the body's natural "Feel Good" chemical.
4. Its treatment with anti-cholesterol drugs causes Dementia which the American Heart Association and Drug Companies would like to hide.
5. Eating eggs is a healthy habit.
It is a class one protein in addition to supplementing vitamins.
6. Cholesterol lowering treatment causes confusion, domestic violence, suicide and even homicide.
7. Its a vital component in the brain.
8. Its secretion parallels cortisol, the vital stress hormone of the body. In other words it a secondary stress indicator and not a stress hormone.
9. The treatment lower cholesterol does not prolong life.
10. Only Aspirin prolongs life in low dosage.
11. Treatment of hypertension does not prolong life but retards secondary organ damage (Heart Failure and Kidney Failure).
12. Human Growth Hormone is one that prolongs life. Unfortunately one cannot interfere with its production except regular and mild exercise.
13. Good sleep without pills is my best indicator of healthy life style. Have plenty of it but one can do that only in one’s retirement.
14. Meditation may be helpful but I have some caution about its impact on cholesterol metabolism.
Benefits of Meditation
There
are many claims of benefit of meditation often poorly substantiated.
Some of these benefit can be obtained without resort to meditation but
simple change in life style.
Suppose a meditator changes his food
habits drastically say to a vegetarian diet and practice meditation as a
routine and finds that his blood cholesterol is lowered significantly,
and then if he or she attributes it to the practice of meditation, there
is a big flow in that argument.
One is not sure whether the change
in diet did effect the blood cholesterol level or the practice of
meditation or both did have independent or summation effect on the level
of blood cholesterol.
Unless one take a random sample and assess the partial correlation then only one can attribute combination or independent effects on a particular quantity tested.
Viability of Satellites in Space
A satellite can last only 5 years in space.
Friday, August 16, 2019
Skin Colour and Pigmentation
I was trying to find an article on pigmentation on big Medical Texts and could not.
This was an extraction from a very old power point presentation.
I have destroyed my notes by conviction.
When we were medical students there were good articles on pigmentation, not now (? new policy).
I am much interested in Guppy and Zebra fish pigmentation not human.
Skin Colour
Skin colour is determined by two factors.
One is the amount of melanin formed in response to sun's radiation effects.
This amount of formation of melanin is determined by different alleles and are poly-geneticaly inherited.
There is hardly any difference between whites and blacks in melanin formation.
The second is the packaging of that melanin in membrane bound packs.
White skin people lack the ability to form (melanasome melanisation) membrane bound packages efficiently.
Melanosomes are either degraded or dispersed in white skin.
It is a genetic deficiency and not a superior quality of white man.
CoviD Fiasco-23-03-2021
Boris Johnson who is talking Big about Ukraine Covered Up Deaths of the Elderly in United kingdom.
He can lie for any money he gets illegally.
Zelensky is the other International Crook.
Only other Crook, I can remember was the Labour Union Leader.
He is alive in his eighties, so I should not mention his name here.
He
transferred Labour Union Money to a foreign country, may be Brazil,
before Margaret Thatcher could lay her hands.
Arthur Scargill is his name.
Arthur Scargill (born 11 January 1938) is a British trade unionist who was President of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) from 1982 to 2002.
He is best known for leading the 1984–1985 UK miners' strike, a major event in the history of the British labour movement.
Joining
the NUM at the age of 19 in 1957, Scargill was one of its leading
activists by the late 1960s. He led an unofficial strike in 1969, and
played a key organising role during the strikes of 1972 and 1974, the
latter of which played a part in the downfall of Edward Heath's
Conservative government.
Thereafter Scargill led the NUM through the 1984–1985 miners' strike.
It turned into a confrontation with the Conservative government of Margaret Thatcher in which the miners' union was defeated.
Initially a Young Communist League member, then a Labour Party member, Scargill is now deputy leader of the Socialist Labour Party (SLP), having founded the party in 1996 and served as its leader from the party's foundation until 2024
I stop registering for Labour Party in 1980s.
CoviD Fiasco-23-03-2021
Rebirth and Mind
Mind, Memory, Dreams and Consciousness are terms used to describe the working of the brain.
None of these terms are inclusive nor exclusive in enlightening the understanding of the working of the brain.
Brain is the most variable component of these elements, if this discussion is extended to the animal kingdom.
I am going to exclude the brain and its physiology by default.
The reasons, I will briefly outline.
Brain can exist in a vegetative state with modern technological support as long as artificial ventilation is maintained. I have done this myself as an neonatal resident in UK.
One example is enough.
Obstetric Registrar delivered a baby by Cesarean Section. The baby’s heart had stopped a few minutes before. I was called in and I concurred, in fact, the heart had stopped.
I was in a dilemma.
If I do not resuscitate this baby, I will fall into trouble for negligence with the superiors behind my back.
This was a locum job not a permanent job.
I made an immediate decision to give intra-cardiac injection and got the attending nurses into full action gear. That included calling in the Senior Registrar for his approval before shoving in the needle to the baby’s heart. He said OK and the baby’s heart did start in a shutdown state. I did another stupid thing immediately afterwards. Shoved in an intra-arterial canula and pumped in saline to stabilize the blood pressure and open up the veins. Intra-arterial infusion was not in vogue, then, except at Oxford University. I used to call the Oxford Registrar for advice on clinical problems.
If I remember right she was a lady doctor.
After stabilizing the physiological state and opening an intravenous infusion, I transferred the baby to the ICU. This baby started fitting after six hours of resuscitation and for another six weeks. Everybody, including the parents were cursing me behind my back.
This was good on me.
I decided to leave UK for good.
I decided not to get involved in anymore of high tech Intensive Care Work.
Of course in later years, I was more comfortable in Pathology where decisions are made “after the fact” at postmortem.
Even after postmortem only in about 60%, one can make reliable conclusion. The postmortem of this baby did not reveal new facts.
In Ceylon this baby would have been declared dead without resuscitation.
Not having technology is a blessing in disguise.
Now coming to my discussion, this baby’s brain was dead but not his heart.
It was in a vegetative state without properly functioning brain.
I followed my Buddhist instincts and fell apart with British colleagues.
In my mind, I was not a God to decide the future for this baby’s life, in this life.
I am not an arbitrator of Kamma in Evolution.
I did what the physiology could support but could not intervene, in the evolution of the next life.
Like the “Near Death Experience” of cardiac arrest patients, if I could see into the next life my intervention could have been masterly inactivity.
But, I have no discretion available according to the practice of Western Medicine except supporting life with artificial means.
The “Let Go” principle according to the nature of events unfolding is not something discussed in depth in the West.
I make following prepositions.
None may be correct, some may be correct, certainly, not all of them are correct.
1. Mind inhabits the brain when suitable but exists it when impossible for functioning.
Body and Mind in a comforting cave of existence.
2. Mind does not become extinct at death.
3. It grabs another living body and brain by default.
4. The transition period is ill understood as seen in “Near Death Syndrome”.
There is no inter-phase or untar-bhava or elderly wise men helping the soul.
The transition is quick and automatic without an intervening phase.
It is like the transmission of an electron through a transistor gate.
The mind enters the transistor portal and goes into the next “Bhava of Existence” instantaneously and it is one way ticket and no coming back.
The mind floating in space and looking for a place of rebirth of choice with wise men helping in, is not at all plausible.
The wise men have no right to intervene except masterly inactivity.
Imagine how all the souls waiting for a rebirth point of entry and thus keep floating in space.
There will be War or Clash of Souls.
I hope you got the point, I am driving at.
Each soul has his or her own pathway of transition.
Not even so called God can intervene.
5. It either grabs the current body of existence (at least temporarily) with doctors’ help (resuscitation) or has no choice but to exit and enter its own individual path.
6. Mind can exist outside the body.
7. Body can exist without a mind.
EBENs of extraterrestrial origin, comes to my mind.
EBENs do not have a soul or self but are biological robots.
This is where the bio-engineering would create biological entities / agents that can reproduce identical biological robots.
The presumption here is that without a previous existence of the mind, a “new soul” cannot be created de novo.
8. Highest level of mind’s existence is its detachment from the entanglement with the body (current or future existence) or Nirvana in Buddhist Terminology.
9. There have to be many minds of existences and there cannot be a “Unity of Mind” (as a God or super agent of creation).
10. All of the above is not true.
11. Some are plausible and some are not.
Alcohol Consumption
Regarding alcohol, what I find interesting is the minimum even in Bangladesh (country with lowest intake) is one litre of pure alcohol per person.
Which is a colossal amount when multiplied by the total population.
I find it interesting Iranians drink as much as Russians.
It is said Belorussians drink the most but their officials figures are scaled down. Maldivians drink more simply due to lack of water supply.
Come to Ceylonese they drink about 15 times as as Bangladeshis and only about 5 times less as Russians.
I expected the Africans to drink more but it is true of only a few countries like Zambia, Nigeria and South Africa.
Myanmar tops India and Indians drink (unlike seen in Tamilnadu films), far less amount than Ceylonese.
My gut feeling was that people of rich and relatively happy countries consume more but they are less than all the Muslim countries put together.
Malaysia is an exception.
I guessed Singaporean drinks more but I was wrong. The reason, they have no time to drink.
Except New Zealand most of the Western counties drink an average more than Asians.
The Australians are heavy drinkers but it is coming down unlike in UK and USA.
My analysis is where there are dictators running the country, the alcohol consumption is high.
Myanmar is a classic example and some Latin American countries with dictators running the affairs are close allies of alcohol.
A point what our Buddhist monks have failed to grasp is when there is a dictator running, the alcohol consumption goes up significantly and rapidly.
So, if we want to drop alcohol consumption democracy should go hand in hand not other way round.
If our alcohol consumption goes up by the next election do not blame the drinker but the rulers.
The corollary is, for a dictator to succeed the country should streamline and jack up alcohol production and sell alcohol at an affordable price.
The variety does not matter but the production rate does.
I gather Americans are drinking much more after the previous election with enthusiasm and steam. This will increase if, President Biden approves and let the furloughing, through. President Biden has to make sure alcohol production goes unhampered during his term of office and he will be remembered for life, if he cuts down taxes on alcohol in spite of medical advice.
It does not matter he fails to keep 90% of his promises.
That also make Republicans to drink more and lose track of the elections.
For his successor to have a smooth riding, he should not follow the doctors advice on alcohol and the numerous medical legislatures brought in front of him for approval.
Just pretend that the president (President Trump) is absorbing the advice in good spirit.
Now that the war in the Middle East is escalating one should not let the alcohol price go up but only the oil and the gas prices.
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